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Coco Chanel in her apartment at 31 Rue Cambon, in an eighteenth-century building, in the 1950s and 1960s. Coco's apartment was on the second floor of the building that became the residence of her brand. The shows were held on the ground floor, the showroom lay above,
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Prince Christian and Princess Alexandrine Augusta of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, the future King Christian X of Denmark and Queen Alexandrine. The photograph was taken at Fredensborg Palace in 1903
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In the Middle Ages the head of Vespasian was hollowed out from within and used as a water basin, with a hole bored in the ear to serve as a drain. Collection of the National Archaeological Museum of Naples, Farnese Collection
Observations · Society · Nature · Humour
Some do not believe that a mere few thousand years ago people, covered in hair and clad in a pitiful semblance of clothing or none at all, could run about with sticks, huddle into herds and display behaviour of the most thoroughly animal kind, explaining it by saying that man
Books · Mores · Education · People
There is a legend that Mikhail Lermontov began learning English by reading Byron's poetry in the original. And within a few months the fifteen-year-old Mikhail Yuryevich was supposedly a fine master of English, or at least understood it remarkably well. Like all legends, this tale sounds
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The Luxor Obelisk and the Arc de Triomphe at opposite ends of the Champs-Élysées. In 1830 the obelisk was presented to France by Muhammad Ali, Viceroy of Egypt
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The floor of the Papal Palace in Avignon. This palace was the papal residence during the years of the Avignon Captivity of the popes, in 1309 to 1377, and in the years that followed, when popes and antipopes resided in Avignon
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